How to open and run a java software: jstock

Try:

sudo apt-get install unp

Can you also give the output of:

find /home/ian/.tmp/jstock

Thanks

Many thanks. Tried sudo apt-get install unp what should have happened?

Output as requested below:

ian@Ianz-pc:~$ find /home/ian/.tmp/jstock
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/config
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/config/commons-logging.properties
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/database
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/database/database.zip
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jackson-mapper-lgpl-1.5.7.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jxlayer.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/xml-writer-0.2.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/xstream-1.4.2.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/gdata-core-1.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/kxml2-2.3.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/gdata-media-1.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/google-collect-1.0-rc1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/nachocalendar-0.23.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/swing-layout-1.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/joda-time-1.6.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/ta-lib-0.4.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/gdata-client-1.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/blobsallad.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/commons-logging-1.1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/smack.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/poi-3.2-FINAL-20081019.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jh.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jdom-1.1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jcommon-1.0.16.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/xpp3_min-1.1.4c.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/pinyin4j-2.5.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/mail.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/stax-1.2.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jfreechart-1.0.13.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/gdata-docs-3.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/forms-1.1.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/commons-httpclient-3.1-rc1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/opencsv-2.3.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/swingx-0.9.6.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jackson-core-lgpl-1.6.1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/jasypt-1.5.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/commons-codec-1.3.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/commons-net-1.4.1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/stax-api-1.0.1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/smackx.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/l2fprod-common-all.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/gdata-calendar-2.0.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/commons-validator-1.3.1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/AbsoluteLayout.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/cglib-nodep-2.2.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/xom-1.1.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/lib/JHotDraw7.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/jstock.jar
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/extra
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/extra/extra.zip
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/docs
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/docs/gpl-2.0.txt
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/docs/contributors.txt
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/docs/changelog.txt
/home/ian/.tmp/jstock/jstock.sh
ian@Ianz-pc:~$

Then run:

cd /home/ian/.tmp/jstock/; chmod +x ./jstock.sh; ./jstock.sh

That seems to work but there's a reference to java :-

ian@Ianz-pc:~$ cd /home/ian/.tmp/jstock/; chmod +x ./jstock.sh; ./jstock.sh
Warning: /bin/java does not exist
requestFocus
ian@Ianz-pc:~/.tmp/jstock$

presumably you don't get java in linux or can you?

I think you should install openjdk java runtime:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

@ actionparsnip: is it better to use Oracle Java? I'm using OpenJDK but a few things don't work, like online games.

Try both

Thanks! Using the PPA you mentionned has just fixed a long time issue. ;)

 Many thanks Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin and actionparsnip.

The command "ian@Ianz-pc:~$ cd /home/ian/.tmp/jstock/; chmod +x ./jstock.sh; ./jstock.sh" works and opens the software, but even though I lock the icon to the launcher, once I've closed it down clicking the icon wont launch it though the icon pulses for a few seconds. Also I can't find it in the list of installed software.

I tried both commands suggested to load java runtime but neither seem to have worked with jstock.

Could you right-click the icon, open 'properties', and tell us what you read in the 'command' field?

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.